Comparing The Apple IPhone With The Motorola Droid

Comparing The Apple IPhone With The Motorola Droid – Beyond The Obvious

Coverage: The guy with the glasses or Luke Wilson?

Who do you believe? Luke Wilson lost some weight and looks better now, but I’d trust a nerd over a B-list movie star when it comes to my phone carrier. That’s really an important part of the iPhone/Droid debate. You can compare a list of all the iPhone/Droid features and functions, but none of that will matter if you can’t get a signal. So which is truly better? Well just like the Verizon and AT&T battle, it’s complicated. Verizon definitely has the best voice coverage and quality of all wireless providers. That has always been their MO and they continue to lead in that arena.

Just like in football, where it’s the kicker’s job to kick the ball, it’s the cell phone carrier’s job to provide phone coverage. But with the recent Verizon and AT&T commercial media battles, who’s to know which company is telling the truth. Hands down Verizon has the best call quality and service. It is what they have stood by from the beginning, “Can you hear me now?” AT&T doesn’t compare to Verizon’s call service, but they make up for it in their superb data coverage, thanks in large part to the iPhone. But don’t just take my word for it, take it from me and my friends! I did a review with a group of my friends who are spread out all over the continental U.S., with an equal amount of iPhone and Droid users.

Personally, I’ve had service with all the major carriers over the course of my 15 years of being a cell phone junkie. All except T-Mobile who always seems to be a bit behind in technology although they were rated to have the best customer service. My sample of friends have similar histories as well, so…

The results are below.

We ranked the voice coverage in the following order:

1.) Verizon Wireless 2.) Sprint 3.) T-Mobile 4.) AT&T Wireless

This is how we rated each carrier according to data coverage:

1.) AT&T Wireless 2.) Sprint 3.) T-Mobile 4.) Verizon Wireless

Equipment: Pure touchscreen vs Touchscreen with slide-out keyboard

The type of keyboard interface anyone would choose to use is a matter of personal preference of course, but what we will set straight is what kind of touch screen is more superior. How can one touch screen be better than another? By how they are touched of course…

What is not known to much of the touch screen toting public is that there is a huge difference in the iPhone touch screen and most other touch screens out there. The iPhone relies on the electrical properties of your finger to identify where on the screen you are touching. This allows it to be much more responsive and intuitive to what you want to do. The rest of the industry uses a resistive touch screen that relies on pressure to identify location. By using multiple layers stacked on top of each other it uses the pressure applied by your finger or stylus to cause those layers to touch and thus provoke the appropriate response.

The Motorola Droid’s QWERTY keyboard is quite standard in function. Although critics will point out how it makes the Droid more heavy and bulky. Proponents of the keyboard are happy to make a little sacrifice to have an actual physical keyboard.

No matter what manufacturers continue to crank out, the iPhone 3Gs is still the standard by which all other smart phones are judged. The Droid came out with a ton of media hype and it has proven itself worthy to be in the same room with the iPhone, though not usurping it in any way. However, until the Apple iPhone is officially available on the other networks it will continue to be judged not only on its own merits, but that of AT&T Wireless as well. I guess that means we’ll still be seeing a lot of Luke Wilson in the near future.

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